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The process of Natural Selection works in the following way.
All adaptations work on the same principle, whether 'artificially' induced or random natural events.
The following story serves to show how flora or fauna adapt to meet new circumstance.
The Samurai Crab:
In the Battle of Dannoura around 1185 Japan, two powerful clans, the Taira and the Genji, were fighting a civil war over the succession of a seven year old emperor. The final battle between the two clans was fought off the coast of Dannoura, in the Japanese sea.
The Genji fought the Taira. The Taira warriors were outnumbered by three to one. But they understood the tides of that area very well and they had superior naval tactics.
They fought bravely.
They lost ... in fact the Taira were driven into the sea and either killed or committed ritual suicide. One of the reasons they lost was that Taguchi Shigeyoshi, a Taira General, defected. And told the Genji which ship the little child emperor was on.
The sea ran red with blood, including the little emperors, who died before he knew he was born. The fallen were eaten by the Crabs, in fact, the crabs feasted and feasted. The Heike Crabs. The Samurai Crabs.
And ... From the victorious Genji arose the first Shogun !
From the day of the battle crab fisherman in this area would throw back any crab that had markings that resembled a human face as these could possibly contain the spirits of fallen warriors. They would only keep those crabs that did not appear to contain a warriors spirit. Over the years crabs with '
human face like' markings flourished because they were
not being eaten, and all the others
were eaten by the fisherman.
Slowly but surely the gene-pool came to be dominated by crabs with face-like markings. Until eventually the gene pool consisted of
ONLY crabs with have face like markings.
So a change was bought about in the evolution of the crabs through a change in the crabs 'environment'.
As crabs without face like markings became scarce and disappeared, the fisherman started to only reject those that looked like warriors and ate the others .. or they would have starved. This refined selection led to the crabs resembling warriors to the finest degree.
Now ALL Heike crabs look like ancient Japanese warriorsThis is how Natural Selection works ...
A good overview from the Wiki
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1.. Life forms reproduce to make offspring.
2.. The offspring differs from the parent in minor random ways.
3.. If the differences are helpful, the offspring is more likely to survive and reproduce.
4.. This means that more offspring in the next generation will have the helpful difference.
5.. These differences accumulate resulting in changes within the population.
6.. Over time, this process gradually leads to entirely new types of life.
7.. This process is responsible for the many diverse life forms in the world today.
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Hope this helped .. Zac da Black